That is the great thing about the Fug girls. They acknowledge and encourage as well as reprimand.

I'm now picturing Christina as a vampire who went and sucked away whatever class Brittney had.

Ha! If only I believed that Britney ever had class.

Also, Gawker continues their surprisingly amusing coverage of that offensive Forbes article Jess linked to about how you shouldn' marry a woman who makes a lot of money: [link]

It's gotten mushy-headed, right?

I've never read it regularly. I've always like they got attention through wild misrepresentations and deliberately outrageous opinion pieces. Which is probably unfair, but I never saw anything that made me want to delve into it.

But lately the basic quality of the writing pains me. Maybe that's just Kevin Berger, though. Or his editor. I think when he's done there will be no commas left for anyone else.

A friend of mine worked as an editor for Salon ages ago. There was a mass exodus of what sounded like bitter editorial staff at one point, and that's when she left. I don't recall what prompted it. For all I know, the dot-com crash.

Well, at least there's SOME thought here:

In 2005, two University of Michigan scientists concluded that if your wife has a job earning more than $15 an hour (roughly $30,000 a year), she will do 1.9 hours less housework a week. Of course, this can be solved if the husband picks up a broom.

NYTimes op-ed article in defense of Pluto: [link]

Yeah, I'm done with work for the day.

Oh, this is not going to go well

New 'Survivor' Divides Groups By Race

There was a period when Salon was worth paying for, right around the time we Went To War and all that.

Now, it's not usually even worth me clicking through an ad.

I know, Vortex, can you believe? I thought it was a joke at first.

Bento box adorableness!!!! [link]